Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183455 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1226
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In this paper, we first present novel evidence of grading bias against women at the university level. This is in contrast to previous results at the secondary education level. Contrary to the gender composition at lower levels of education in Sweden, the teachers and graders at the university level are predominantly male. Thus, an in-group bias mechanism could consistently explain the evidence from both the university and secondary education level. However, we find that in-group bias can only explain approximately 20 percent of the total grading bias effect at the university level.
Subjects: 
Grading bias
University
Discrimination
Education
Anonymous grading
JEL: 
I23
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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